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		<title>By: Ramsefall</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35718</link>
		<dc:creator>Ramsefall</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:06:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m siding with Tree on this one.

And, I&#039;d say God help the human race overcome its perpetual stupidity and heartlessness but God doesn&#039;t operate on a personal level as such...and besides, why would the human race even be deserving of His/Her mercy? It&#039;s apparent that we have very little mercy amongst ourselves to spread around, but there&#039;s plenty of violence, aggression, greed, hate, racism, superiority complexes...I can&#039;t even comprehend how we&#039;ve made it this far...damn near miraculous.

Best to all.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m siding with Tree on this one.</p>
<p>And, I&#8217;d say God help the human race overcome its perpetual stupidity and heartlessness but God doesn&#8217;t operate on a personal level as such&#8230;and besides, why would the human race even be deserving of His/Her mercy? It&#8217;s apparent that we have very little mercy amongst ourselves to spread around, but there&#8217;s plenty of violence, aggression, greed, hate, racism, superiority complexes&#8230;I can&#8217;t even comprehend how we&#8217;ve made it this far&#8230;damn near miraculous.</p>
<p>Best to all.</p>
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		<title>By: mary</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35658</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>There is an article on Redress by Stuart Littlewood which gives the history of Sderot and its Palestinian origins. It is well worth reading.
http://www.redress.cc/palestine/slittlewood20090107
&#039;Israel’s propaganda mainstay, Sderot, is a lie (like everything else)&#039; .

Independently, a contributor on Medialens tells of his attempts to correct information on the Wikipedia page about Sderot and how it has been contorted by the Zionists. They really are vile people.
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Posted by George_HK on January 7, 2009, 9:26 pm, 
On the wikipedia page about Sderot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sderot) I added to the history section that until 1948 the area was the village of Najd and on whose remains Sderot was built. 

I put the facts in and deliberately didn&#039;t use words like ethnic cleansed as the facts alone don&#039;t need any hyperbole. 

In fact, the words I did use (having just checked) were &quot;In the place it now occupies stood the Arab village of Najd whose inhabitants were driven out by zionist forces in 1948, three years before the village was destroyed and rebuilt as Sderot. The first inhabitants of Sderot arrived in 1951 to what was then known as the Gevim-Dorot transit camp&quot; The word Zionist was accurate. 

These were removed and put back to &quot;The first inhabitants of Sderot arrived in 1951 to what was then known as.....&quot; 

They just &quot;arrived&quot;... 

I wrote in the reason for the edit to explain, &quot;This change is FACTUAL. I doubt this will prevent the censors trying to re-write history though&quot; This ONLY appears in the history file not in the article itself which most people read. 

Within 6 minutes it was deleted and I was sent a message from an &quot;administrator&quot; threatening I would be banned from editing if I added personal comments to the reasons page for &quot;violating Wikipedia&#039;s neutral point of view policy&quot;. 

I checked out this &quot;administrator&quot; &#039;Ynhockey&#039;(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ynhockey) and in their &quot;about me&quot; section wrote that they &quot;serve in the IDF&#039;s Military Police Corps&quot; 

Completely impartial arbiter then huh? 

These people are the crudest kind of censor who complain and bombard media outlets like the BBC. On the other &quot;side&quot; are people like me, individuals who are appalled by the bias on the BBC and complain and furnish them with facts to challenge the lies and we are lumped together as &quot;a lobby group&quot; with some kind of equal validity. 

I am incredibly grateful for this board these last few days knowing that there are people challenging the lies being broadcast and keeping me (relatively) sane ;-) 

Replying to previous message:
: The b*llsh*t broadcasting corporation always 
: acquit themselves. The zionist lobby has its 
: trolls in a frenzy especially on the BBC and 
: other bulletin boards defending mass murder 
: and state terrorism. It&#039;s always the same 
: trolls too; they appear to have no other job 
: than to defend Israel all day.  

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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>There is an article on Redress by Stuart Littlewood which gives the history of Sderot and its Palestinian origins. It is well worth reading.<br />
<a href="http://www.redress.cc/palestine/slittlewood20090107" rel="nofollow">http://www.redress.cc/palestine/slittlewood20090107</a><br />
&#8216;Israel’s propaganda mainstay, Sderot, is a lie (like everything else)&#8217; .</p>
<p>Independently, a contributor on Medialens tells of his attempts to correct information on the Wikipedia page about Sderot and how it has been contorted by the Zionists. They really are vile people.<br />
&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-<br />
Posted by George_HK on January 7, 2009, 9:26 pm,<br />
On the wikipedia page about Sderot (<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sderot" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sderot</a>) I added to the history section that until 1948 the area was the village of Najd and on whose remains Sderot was built. </p>
<p>I put the facts in and deliberately didn&#8217;t use words like ethnic cleansed as the facts alone don&#8217;t need any hyperbole. </p>
<p>In fact, the words I did use (having just checked) were &#8220;In the place it now occupies stood the Arab village of Najd whose inhabitants were driven out by zionist forces in 1948, three years before the village was destroyed and rebuilt as Sderot. The first inhabitants of Sderot arrived in 1951 to what was then known as the Gevim-Dorot transit camp&#8221; The word Zionist was accurate. </p>
<p>These were removed and put back to &#8220;The first inhabitants of Sderot arrived in 1951 to what was then known as&#8230;..&#8221; </p>
<p>They just &#8220;arrived&#8221;&#8230; </p>
<p>I wrote in the reason for the edit to explain, &#8220;This change is FACTUAL. I doubt this will prevent the censors trying to re-write history though&#8221; This ONLY appears in the history file not in the article itself which most people read. </p>
<p>Within 6 minutes it was deleted and I was sent a message from an &#8220;administrator&#8221; threatening I would be banned from editing if I added personal comments to the reasons page for &#8220;violating Wikipedia&#8217;s neutral point of view policy&#8221;. </p>
<p>I checked out this &#8220;administrator&#8221; &#8216;Ynhockey&#8217;(see <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ynhockey)" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Ynhockey)</a> and in their &#8220;about me&#8221; section wrote that they &#8220;serve in the IDF&#8217;s Military Police Corps&#8221; </p>
<p>Completely impartial arbiter then huh? </p>
<p>These people are the crudest kind of censor who complain and bombard media outlets like the BBC. On the other &#8220;side&#8221; are people like me, individuals who are appalled by the bias on the BBC and complain and furnish them with facts to challenge the lies and we are lumped together as &#8220;a lobby group&#8221; with some kind of equal validity. </p>
<p>I am incredibly grateful for this board these last few days knowing that there are people challenging the lies being broadcast and keeping me (relatively) sane ;-) </p>
<p>Replying to previous message:<br />
: The b*llsh*t broadcasting corporation always<br />
: acquit themselves. The zionist lobby has its<br />
: trolls in a frenzy especially on the BBC and<br />
: other bulletin boards defending mass murder<br />
: and state terrorism. It&#8217;s always the same<br />
: trolls too; they appear to have no other job<br />
: than to defend Israel all day.  </p>
<p>&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-</p>
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		<title>By: mary</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35646</link>
		<dc:creator>mary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>They can EXIT as well Shabnam as far as I&#039;m concerned, off the world stage and off the illegally occupied land that once was the Palestinians.

This is an eye witness account of the police attack in the Hyde Park underpass from Stop the War Coalition.
http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=871&amp;Itemid=115</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>They can EXIT as well Shabnam as far as I&#8217;m concerned, off the world stage and off the illegally occupied land that once was the Palestinians.</p>
<p>This is an eye witness account of the police attack in the Hyde Park underpass from Stop the War Coalition.<br />
<a href="http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=871&amp;Itemid=115" rel="nofollow">http://www.stopwar.org.uk/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=871&amp;Itemid=115</a></p>
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		<title>By: Shabnam</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35643</link>
		<dc:creator>Shabnam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:35:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Sorry
Sould be ISRAEL HAS NO RIGHT TO EXIST.  DOWN WITH ZIONISM</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Sorry<br />
Sould be ISRAEL HAS NO RIGHT TO EXIST.  DOWN WITH ZIONISM</p>
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		<title>By: Shabnam</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35641</link>
		<dc:creator>Shabnam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:06:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Mary 
Thank you for your efforts to inform people about palestinian holocaust.  We do appreciate it.  Your information is important. 

I also want to inform people about a  Zionist liar, pose as historian - Benny Morris -  who has struck again, this time at Sunday Times in an article “Israel has no choice but to be tough on Hamas - and Iran” on January 4, 2009  to spread lies around to form pro Israel public opinion, anti palestinian and Muslim in general to keep the western population silent on Israel genocidal policy. 

This Zionist liar who publicized his extermination plan to use using nuclear holocaust to remove the Iranian ‘problem,’  at New York Time last fall, now he has extended  his extermination plan to Palestinian as well as those who are obstacle to Zionist expansionist policy Palestine and beyond using  manufactured crisis and phony threat against ‘little’ Israel.  He warns the international community again:
“In the next year or so, if the world community does not force the Iranians through diplomacy and economic sanctions to halt their nuclear programme, then either the US or Israel will have to attack and destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities.” 

This Zionist exterminator thinks that Israel should continue its genocidal policy to eliminate the ‘problem’ relying on Israel’s fifth column in the US and generous American and western financial and military supports, in billions, to expand its influence throughout the Middle East and North Africa.  Conducting sea piracy, Israel has struck at Arab sovereignty of the Red Sea and Bab al Mandab for his expansionist policy towards final goal of WORLD DOMINATION.
This Zionist liar is trying to deceive ignorant western population by distortion of the facts on the ground talking about ‘Arab Strength’ which does not exist.  Arab puppet head of States are presented by the Zionists as ‘Arab Moderate States’  which really means Arab head of states who are in the Zionist’s pocket like Kurdish ‘leaders.’ 
 ISREAL HAS NO RIGHT TO EXIT.  DOWN WITH ZIONISM.  DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5439608.ece</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mary<br />
Thank you for your efforts to inform people about palestinian holocaust.  We do appreciate it.  Your information is important. </p>
<p>I also want to inform people about a  Zionist liar, pose as historian &#8211; Benny Morris &#8211;  who has struck again, this time at Sunday Times in an article “Israel has no choice but to be tough on Hamas &#8211; and Iran” on January 4, 2009  to spread lies around to form pro Israel public opinion, anti palestinian and Muslim in general to keep the western population silent on Israel genocidal policy. </p>
<p>This Zionist liar who publicized his extermination plan to use using nuclear holocaust to remove the Iranian ‘problem,’  at New York Time last fall, now he has extended  his extermination plan to Palestinian as well as those who are obstacle to Zionist expansionist policy Palestine and beyond using  manufactured crisis and phony threat against ‘little’ Israel.  He warns the international community again:<br />
“In the next year or so, if the world community does not force the Iranians through diplomacy and economic sanctions to halt their nuclear programme, then either the US or Israel will have to attack and destroy the Iranian nuclear facilities.” </p>
<p>This Zionist exterminator thinks that Israel should continue its genocidal policy to eliminate the ‘problem’ relying on Israel’s fifth column in the US and generous American and western financial and military supports, in billions, to expand its influence throughout the Middle East and North Africa.  Conducting sea piracy, Israel has struck at Arab sovereignty of the Red Sea and Bab al Mandab for his expansionist policy towards final goal of WORLD DOMINATION.<br />
This Zionist liar is trying to deceive ignorant western population by distortion of the facts on the ground talking about ‘Arab Strength’ which does not exist.  Arab puppet head of States are presented by the Zionists as ‘Arab Moderate States’  which really means Arab head of states who are in the Zionist’s pocket like Kurdish ‘leaders.’<br />
 ISREAL HAS NO RIGHT TO EXIT.  DOWN WITH ZIONISM.  DOWN WITH IMPERIALISM<br />
<a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5439608.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5439608.ece</a></p>
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		<title>By: mary</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35607</link>
		<dc:creator>mary</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:26:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>The UK Israeli-supporting government is shutting down dissent, or trying to. Last Saturday 75,000 marched along the Embankment to Trafalgar Square. (The police estimate of the number was 20,000 of course).  A section of these same police, the Riot Squad in full riot gear, trapped an MP George Galloway and others in an underpass under Hyde Park and charged at them from both ends. Injuries were caused.

Now one of Brown&#039;s minions, Burnham, is trying to use some of NuLabour&#039;s anti-democratic legislation to stop a protest next Saturday.


Stop the War Coalition 
Press Release 
Saturday 3 January 2009 
Immediate 
www.stopwar.org.uk 
Contact: 
Andrew Burgin: 07939 242 229 

GOVERNMENT BLOCKS GAZA DEMONSTRATION AT ISRAELI EMBASSY 

Ministers are obstructing the holding of a national demonstration on Saturday to protest against the Israeli invasion of Gaza, march organisers said today. 

Officials of the Royal Parks Agency, acting under the authority of Culture Secretary Andy Burnham, have blocked a plan to hold a rally in Kensington Palace Gardens near the Israeli Embassy in London. 

The demonstration, organised by the Stop the War Coalition, Palestine 
Solidarity Campaign and British Muslim Initiative, is expected to attract tens of thousands of people from across the country, outraged at the massacre of Palestinians taking place in Gaza. 

&quot;The arrangements for our march and rally were notified to the police days ago,&quot; Stop the War Coalition chair Andrew Murray said today. &quot;We have now found that they are being blocked by the Parks authorities, in consultation with ministers, on the spurious pretext of a lack of precedent. 

&quot;This nonsensical argument recalls government attempts to stop the rally against the Iraq war in February 2003 on the grounds that the grass in Hyde Park might be damaged. 

&quot;Ministers should understand that the anger against Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people is also without precedent. We are determined to exercise our democratic right to express that outrage in a public space near the Israeli Embassy. 

&quot;Attempting to block our plans - which have been drawn up with a view to ensuring a peaceful and orderly protest on Saturday - risks making thousands of people angrier still. 

&quot;We are therefore seeking an urgent meeting with Mr Burnham to ensure that he removes these bureaucratic obstructions and allows our protest to proceed as planned.&quot; 

FOR MORE INFORMATION: 
Andrew Burgin: 07939 242 229 
Press Office 
Stop the War Coalition 
27 Britannia Street 
London WC1X 9JP 
www.stopwar.org.uk 

I vouch for what Shabnam reports above on the Israeli bias in the British media notably the BBC, whom we now call ZBC.  If you want chapter and verse, consult http://www.medialens.org/board/ 

Watching Them, Watching Us http://SpyBlog.org.uk is an excellent monitor of the legislation being passed through a supine Parliament, most members of which are incidentally members of Friends of Israel lobbies including the PM Gordon Brown who is President of the UK Jewish National Fund.

The pathetic ex public schoolboy Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron said &#039;I am a Zionist and I&#039;m proud of the fact&#039; in 2007.
http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2007/06/david-cameron-i-am-zionist-and-im-proud.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>The UK Israeli-supporting government is shutting down dissent, or trying to. Last Saturday 75,000 marched along the Embankment to Trafalgar Square. (The police estimate of the number was 20,000 of course).  A section of these same police, the Riot Squad in full riot gear, trapped an MP George Galloway and others in an underpass under Hyde Park and charged at them from both ends. Injuries were caused.</p>
<p>Now one of Brown&#8217;s minions, Burnham, is trying to use some of NuLabour&#8217;s anti-democratic legislation to stop a protest next Saturday.</p>
<p>Stop the War Coalition<br />
Press Release<br />
Saturday 3 January 2009<br />
Immediate<br />
<a href="http://www.stopwar.org.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.stopwar.org.uk</a><br />
Contact:<br />
Andrew Burgin: 07939 242 229 </p>
<p>GOVERNMENT BLOCKS GAZA DEMONSTRATION AT ISRAELI EMBASSY </p>
<p>Ministers are obstructing the holding of a national demonstration on Saturday to protest against the Israeli invasion of Gaza, march organisers said today. </p>
<p>Officials of the Royal Parks Agency, acting under the authority of Culture Secretary Andy Burnham, have blocked a plan to hold a rally in Kensington Palace Gardens near the Israeli Embassy in London. </p>
<p>The demonstration, organised by the Stop the War Coalition, Palestine<br />
Solidarity Campaign and British Muslim Initiative, is expected to attract tens of thousands of people from across the country, outraged at the massacre of Palestinians taking place in Gaza. </p>
<p>&#8220;The arrangements for our march and rally were notified to the police days ago,&#8221; Stop the War Coalition chair Andrew Murray said today. &#8220;We have now found that they are being blocked by the Parks authorities, in consultation with ministers, on the spurious pretext of a lack of precedent. </p>
<p>&#8220;This nonsensical argument recalls government attempts to stop the rally against the Iraq war in February 2003 on the grounds that the grass in Hyde Park might be damaged. </p>
<p>&#8220;Ministers should understand that the anger against Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people is also without precedent. We are determined to exercise our democratic right to express that outrage in a public space near the Israeli Embassy. </p>
<p>&#8220;Attempting to block our plans &#8211; which have been drawn up with a view to ensuring a peaceful and orderly protest on Saturday &#8211; risks making thousands of people angrier still. </p>
<p>&#8220;We are therefore seeking an urgent meeting with Mr Burnham to ensure that he removes these bureaucratic obstructions and allows our protest to proceed as planned.&#8221; </p>
<p>FOR MORE INFORMATION:<br />
Andrew Burgin: 07939 242 229<br />
Press Office<br />
Stop the War Coalition<br />
27 Britannia Street<br />
London WC1X 9JP<br />
<a href="http://www.stopwar.org.uk" rel="nofollow">http://www.stopwar.org.uk</a> </p>
<p>I vouch for what Shabnam reports above on the Israeli bias in the British media notably the BBC, whom we now call ZBC.  If you want chapter and verse, consult <a href="http://www.medialens.org/board/" rel="nofollow">http://www.medialens.org/board/</a> </p>
<p>Watching Them, Watching Us <a href="http://SpyBlog.org.uk" rel="nofollow">http://SpyBlog.org.uk</a> is an excellent monitor of the legislation being passed through a supine Parliament, most members of which are incidentally members of Friends of Israel lobbies including the PM Gordon Brown who is President of the UK Jewish National Fund.</p>
<p>The pathetic ex public schoolboy Leader of the Opposition, David Cameron said &#8216;I am a Zionist and I&#8217;m proud of the fact&#8217; in 2007.<br />
<a href="http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2007/06/david-cameron-i-am-zionist-and-im-proud.html" rel="nofollow">http://archbishop-cranmer.blogspot.com/2007/06/david-cameron-i-am-zionist-and-im-proud.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Shabnam</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35595</link>
		<dc:creator>Shabnam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 07:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Craig Murray, writer and broadcaster, was Britain Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan helped expose vicious human rights abuses by the Us-funded regime of Islam Karimove.  He is now a prominent critic of Western Policy in the region.  He observed how  bias is the  western mass media  in order to form public opinion against  victims of Gaza:
He watched BBC World News for a timed hour yesterday. In that time he saw: 
Pro-Israeli (including US government) speakers - 17 
Pro-Palestinian speakers - 2
Mentions of Hamas Rockets as reason for war - 37
Mentions of illegal Israeli settlements - 0
Mentions of Palestinians killed by Israel during &quot;ceasefire&quot; - 2
Mentions of Sderot - 12
Mentions Sderot used to be Palestinian – 0

This shows how  populations of the west are kept in the dark to keep them ignorant and uninformed about the root causes of Palestinian genocide by the Zionist mass murderers.  The western mass media plays a powerful role in keeping western population SILENT.  Thus the media keeps majority of people to cooperate with officials, therefore, they are accomplice in the war crimes of the empire.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Craig Murray, writer and broadcaster, was Britain Ambassador to the Central Asian Republic of Uzbekistan helped expose vicious human rights abuses by the Us-funded regime of Islam Karimove.  He is now a prominent critic of Western Policy in the region.  He observed how  bias is the  western mass media  in order to form public opinion against  victims of Gaza:<br />
He watched BBC World News for a timed hour yesterday. In that time he saw:<br />
Pro-Israeli (including US government) speakers &#8211; 17<br />
Pro-Palestinian speakers &#8211; 2<br />
Mentions of Hamas Rockets as reason for war &#8211; 37<br />
Mentions of illegal Israeli settlements &#8211; 0<br />
Mentions of Palestinians killed by Israel during &#8220;ceasefire&#8221; &#8211; 2<br />
Mentions of Sderot &#8211; 12<br />
Mentions Sderot used to be Palestinian – 0</p>
<p>This shows how  populations of the west are kept in the dark to keep them ignorant and uninformed about the root causes of Palestinian genocide by the Zionist mass murderers.  The western mass media plays a powerful role in keeping western population SILENT.  Thus the media keeps majority of people to cooperate with officials, therefore, they are accomplice in the war crimes of the empire.</p>
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		<title>By: Shabnam</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35592</link>
		<dc:creator>Shabnam</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:03:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Israel is a Zionist state where has committed war crimes many times.  ISRAEL HAS NO RIGHT TO EXIST.  THESE ZIONIST MURDERERS, 95% of Israelis support the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza.  They have to leave our region.  We cannot allow these war criminals to destroy the rest of the Middle East through manufactured ‘crises to PARTITION AND CREATE FUCKING ALLY FOR THESE MASS MURDERERS.
The fucking Zionists want to establish ‘world government’ according to “ the protocol of Zion” with its center at Jerusalem, the stolen land, on slaughtered bodies of Palestinian toddlers and through divide and rule of the whole Middle East region from Pakistan to North Africa.
Down with the Zionist mass murderers.  Down with their western supporters.  People of the Middle East, Asia and Africa must leave their differences aside and be united against the enemy of humanity, Zionism and their supporters. The following Q and A is just a piece of shit which we usually read many times but in reality is misleading:
“SI: What type of change is needed in our collective consciousness to bring about true and honest freedom and justice, which are needed to secure lasting peace?
HZ: Change in our thinking would consist of a rejection of nationalism, a rejection of the idea of national borders, boundaries, visas, passports and immigration quotas. A rejection of the idea that the world can be divided up into 100 or 200 different places, each with its own kind of fierce resentment of other people – a rejection of nationalism, a spirit of world solidarity. That is a fundamental change in our thinking. 
The other change in our thinking is a rejection of violence as a solution to problems and the insistence that whatever problem there is in the world, even if it’s a tyrant somewhere oppressing people, the answer to tyranny, or whatever injustice is going on in the world, cannot be force, violence or war. We must seek imaginative, non-violent solutions to the problems that exist.
http://www.share-international.org/ARCHIVES/cooperation/co_howard-Zinn-interview.htm
If Palestinian were in possession of weapons of mass destruction, like the war criminals, they would not have received this kind of destruction.  We would have seen Zionist mass murderers cut in pieces instead of Palestinian toddlers.  The fucking Zionists deserve to be wiped off the Palestinian land and our region to be sent back to where they came from.  The worse than Nazis, have no right to stay in our region.
We are telling the Zionists that we will defend our BORDERS AND DO NOT ABANDON LOVE FOR OUR COUNTRY, AND DO NOT BELIEVE IN YOUR LIES, NON-VIOLENT SOLUTIONS. 
 
WHEN YOUR ENEMY ARE EQUIPPED WITH THOUSANDS OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, WHEN THE MAJORITIES OF POPULATION OF THE WEST ARE  EITHER SILENT OR SUPPORTIVE OF  THESE MASS MURDERERS, WHEN THE CRYPTO ZIONISTS HIDE  THE FACTS  FROM IGNORANTS, THEN IT IS FOOLISH NOT TO EQUIPP OURSELF WITH THE SAME WMD THAT OUR ENEMIES POSSESS TO DEFEND OUR  LAND AND OUR PEOPLE  ESPECIALLY THE  CHILDREN.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Israel is a Zionist state where has committed war crimes many times.  ISRAEL HAS NO RIGHT TO EXIST.  THESE ZIONIST MURDERERS, 95% of Israelis support the massacre of Palestinians in Gaza.  They have to leave our region.  We cannot allow these war criminals to destroy the rest of the Middle East through manufactured ‘crises to PARTITION AND CREATE FUCKING ALLY FOR THESE MASS MURDERERS.<br />
The fucking Zionists want to establish ‘world government’ according to “ the protocol of Zion” with its center at Jerusalem, the stolen land, on slaughtered bodies of Palestinian toddlers and through divide and rule of the whole Middle East region from Pakistan to North Africa.<br />
Down with the Zionist mass murderers.  Down with their western supporters.  People of the Middle East, Asia and Africa must leave their differences aside and be united against the enemy of humanity, Zionism and their supporters. The following Q and A is just a piece of shit which we usually read many times but in reality is misleading:<br />
“SI: What type of change is needed in our collective consciousness to bring about true and honest freedom and justice, which are needed to secure lasting peace?<br />
HZ: Change in our thinking would consist of a rejection of nationalism, a rejection of the idea of national borders, boundaries, visas, passports and immigration quotas. A rejection of the idea that the world can be divided up into 100 or 200 different places, each with its own kind of fierce resentment of other people – a rejection of nationalism, a spirit of world solidarity. That is a fundamental change in our thinking.<br />
The other change in our thinking is a rejection of violence as a solution to problems and the insistence that whatever problem there is in the world, even if it’s a tyrant somewhere oppressing people, the answer to tyranny, or whatever injustice is going on in the world, cannot be force, violence or war. We must seek imaginative, non-violent solutions to the problems that exist.<br />
<a href="http://www.share-international.org/ARCHIVES/cooperation/co_howard-Zinn-interview.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.share-international.org/ARCHIVES/cooperation/co_howard-Zinn-interview.htm</a><br />
If Palestinian were in possession of weapons of mass destruction, like the war criminals, they would not have received this kind of destruction.  We would have seen Zionist mass murderers cut in pieces instead of Palestinian toddlers.  The fucking Zionists deserve to be wiped off the Palestinian land and our region to be sent back to where they came from.  The worse than Nazis, have no right to stay in our region.<br />
We are telling the Zionists that we will defend our BORDERS AND DO NOT ABANDON LOVE FOR OUR COUNTRY, AND DO NOT BELIEVE IN YOUR LIES, NON-VIOLENT SOLUTIONS. </p>
<p>WHEN YOUR ENEMY ARE EQUIPPED WITH THOUSANDS OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION, WHEN THE MAJORITIES OF POPULATION OF THE WEST ARE  EITHER SILENT OR SUPPORTIVE OF  THESE MASS MURDERERS, WHEN THE CRYPTO ZIONISTS HIDE  THE FACTS  FROM IGNORANTS, THEN IT IS FOOLISH NOT TO EQUIPP OURSELF WITH THE SAME WMD THAT OUR ENEMIES POSSESS TO DEFEND OUR  LAND AND OUR PEOPLE  ESPECIALLY THE  CHILDREN.</p>
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		<title>By: Grace</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35590</link>
		<dc:creator>Grace</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 05:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I had felt bad for being sick and not even able to send money to the Gaza victims.  Now I feel good about not going to work and not paying  more share of war tax.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I had felt bad for being sick and not even able to send money to the Gaza victims.  Now I feel good about not going to work and not paying  more share of war tax.</p>
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		<title>By: Douglas Smith</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35506</link>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 09:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This morning I wake up, realizing that it could be my own family that is under attack. 
 
If those despicable leaders of ours – Obama, Harper, Brown, Sarkozy – refuse to take action against the slaughter in Gaza, that means they are colluding in it. 
 
And if that is so, what is to prevent them from turning on us, their irksome constitutents? Sometime in the future, if we refuse to do their bidding – go to war, build a pyramid – what will prevent them from ordering the military to break down our doors with weapons blazing?
 
These craven grandees had every means to stop the slaughter within a few days. Day one, expel the Israeli ambassador. Day two, cut off trade relations. Day three, encircle Israel with a lockdown blockade, calling upon adjacent Arab nations to help with the task.
 
By now we should be well into stage three. So what is the problem? Why simper and talk foolish while those psychopaths in Tel Aviv run amuck?  
 
The details may never be known, but I am sure of one thing. The government does not function on my behalf. As a peace-loving person, I no longer feel safe from its excesses, even here in the lawful dominion of Gazanada.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This morning I wake up, realizing that it could be my own family that is under attack. </p>
<p>If those despicable leaders of ours – Obama, Harper, Brown, Sarkozy – refuse to take action against the slaughter in Gaza, that means they are colluding in it. </p>
<p>And if that is so, what is to prevent them from turning on us, their irksome constitutents? Sometime in the future, if we refuse to do their bidding – go to war, build a pyramid – what will prevent them from ordering the military to break down our doors with weapons blazing?</p>
<p>These craven grandees had every means to stop the slaughter within a few days. Day one, expel the Israeli ambassador. Day two, cut off trade relations. Day three, encircle Israel with a lockdown blockade, calling upon adjacent Arab nations to help with the task.</p>
<p>By now we should be well into stage three. So what is the problem? Why simper and talk foolish while those psychopaths in Tel Aviv run amuck?  </p>
<p>The details may never be known, but I am sure of one thing. The government does not function on my behalf. As a peace-loving person, I no longer feel safe from its excesses, even here in the lawful dominion of Gazanada.</p>
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		<title>By: MG</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35494</link>
		<dc:creator>MG</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 05:26:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>This is very bad for Israeli.  Why do they think they can get away with this? Isn&#039;t what the Israeli Army did in Lebanon bad enough?  Oct. 2006--&quot;Israel has for the first time admitted it used controversial phosphorus shells during fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon in July and August.&quot;

&quot;The Geneva Conventions ban the use of white phosphorus as an incendiary weapon against civilian populations and in air attacks against military forces in civilian areas. &quot;  from BBC reports 10/2006

Shutter to think why the civilian casualties are so high. This is unacceptable.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>This is very bad for Israeli.  Why do they think they can get away with this? Isn&#8217;t what the Israeli Army did in Lebanon bad enough?  Oct. 2006&#8211;&#8221;Israel has for the first time admitted it used controversial phosphorus shells during fighting against Hezbollah in Lebanon in July and August.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;The Geneva Conventions ban the use of white phosphorus as an incendiary weapon against civilian populations and in air attacks against military forces in civilian areas. &#8221;  from BBC reports 10/2006</p>
<p>Shutter to think why the civilian casualties are so high. This is unacceptable.</p>
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		<title>By: The Angry Peasant</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35487</link>
		<dc:creator>The Angry Peasant</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;d say at this point the best solution to the whole Palestinian situation is to get these people the hell out of there. Call it a rescue operation. Indeed, that&#039;s what it would be. After reading enough interviews with the Gazans in their prison camp, I can tell you none of these people would object to just getting out of that hell. The Israelis want them gone? Fine. They&#039;ll be gone. At least they&#039;d be saved, and the Zionist pigs can revel in their desert shithole. Don&#039;t be surprised if Ahmadinejad decides to bomb their asses, though. And bravo if he does. I&#039;m all for peace, but honestly, the zionistic Israelis are the biggest blight on Earth, and have been for too long. Too many have suffered and died at their hands. We accepted that the Nazis had to be destroyed; I think srael&#039;s in the same ball park.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;d say at this point the best solution to the whole Palestinian situation is to get these people the hell out of there. Call it a rescue operation. Indeed, that&#8217;s what it would be. After reading enough interviews with the Gazans in their prison camp, I can tell you none of these people would object to just getting out of that hell. The Israelis want them gone? Fine. They&#8217;ll be gone. At least they&#8217;d be saved, and the Zionist pigs can revel in their desert shithole. Don&#8217;t be surprised if Ahmadinejad decides to bomb their asses, though. And bravo if he does. I&#8217;m all for peace, but honestly, the zionistic Israelis are the biggest blight on Earth, and have been for too long. Too many have suffered and died at their hands. We accepted that the Nazis had to be destroyed; I think srael&#8217;s in the same ball park.</p>
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		<title>By: Douglas Smith</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35486</link>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Smith</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 03:11:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It&#039;s good to encounter in this journal an oasis of dissidence in an otherwise howling media desert. If those self-righteous mainstream journalists took even one minute to see things from the Palestinian point of view, I doubt they would retain their ‘lazy loftiness” for very long at all.

The other day I myself wrote someone sympathetic to Israel under the head, &quot;Silence is Consent.&quot; Her reply? It was all very well for me to work away at the material level, where conflict is perpetual; but she herself preferred to operate on the spiritual plane, la-de-da, where strife is but a passing illusion that simply gains power the more you dwell upon it.
 
Those of us who can lift a pen should contact the president and boards of directors at our local universities and colleges, urging them to protest the barbarous bombing of Palestinian universities, which outrageously insults the enlightenment ideals of learning and tolerance. 

In the current crisis another strategy for me has been to copy and forward progressive articles such as the above to a circle of email recipients, in the hope that they will do likewise. 

I also urge fairminded people to join the international boycott-divest-sanction movement. There is genuine engagement in asking your local retailer whether a commodity may or may not have originated in Israel. Also, there is real solidarity in circulating information internationally about the commercial dodges which Israel uses to disguise products manufactured in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. 

And in contrast to the South African apartheid boycott, we have no reason to regret the embargo on red wine!
 
Below is the Notification of Boycott which I recently sent to the Israeli ambassador in Ottawa, Canada. Please use it as a template if you wish:

“This is to inform you that I shall henceforth boycott any and all commodities, services, cultural events and academic engagements that have originated in Israel or have benefited from Israeli funding. My decision, which is aligned with that of the Global BDS Movement, will not be reversed until the Israeli government recognizes the right of Palesinian people to self-determination; until Israel puts an end to military assaults, blockades and other acts of violence; and until Israel fully complies with international law, including a wide range of UN resolutions.
   Though I have no illusion that the actions of a single individual will influence your apartheid policies, I am confident that if millions of citizens choose like myself to express their repugnance economically, then Israel will eventually have to accept moral responsibility for the suffering it has inflicted on the Palestinian people.
   Perhaps that day is closer than many think. It was not so long ago that Canadians avoided criticizing Israel for fear they would be branded as anti-Semite. Today, we openly compare the slaughter in Gaza to the Nazi extermination campaign in Warsaw.
   Towards peace with justice,”</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It&#8217;s good to encounter in this journal an oasis of dissidence in an otherwise howling media desert. If those self-righteous mainstream journalists took even one minute to see things from the Palestinian point of view, I doubt they would retain their ‘lazy loftiness” for very long at all.</p>
<p>The other day I myself wrote someone sympathetic to Israel under the head, &#8220;Silence is Consent.&#8221; Her reply? It was all very well for me to work away at the material level, where conflict is perpetual; but she herself preferred to operate on the spiritual plane, la-de-da, where strife is but a passing illusion that simply gains power the more you dwell upon it.</p>
<p>Those of us who can lift a pen should contact the president and boards of directors at our local universities and colleges, urging them to protest the barbarous bombing of Palestinian universities, which outrageously insults the enlightenment ideals of learning and tolerance. </p>
<p>In the current crisis another strategy for me has been to copy and forward progressive articles such as the above to a circle of email recipients, in the hope that they will do likewise. </p>
<p>I also urge fairminded people to join the international boycott-divest-sanction movement. There is genuine engagement in asking your local retailer whether a commodity may or may not have originated in Israel. Also, there is real solidarity in circulating information internationally about the commercial dodges which Israel uses to disguise products manufactured in the Occupied Palestinian Territories. </p>
<p>And in contrast to the South African apartheid boycott, we have no reason to regret the embargo on red wine!</p>
<p>Below is the Notification of Boycott which I recently sent to the Israeli ambassador in Ottawa, Canada. Please use it as a template if you wish:</p>
<p>“This is to inform you that I shall henceforth boycott any and all commodities, services, cultural events and academic engagements that have originated in Israel or have benefited from Israeli funding. My decision, which is aligned with that of the Global BDS Movement, will not be reversed until the Israeli government recognizes the right of Palesinian people to self-determination; until Israel puts an end to military assaults, blockades and other acts of violence; and until Israel fully complies with international law, including a wide range of UN resolutions.<br />
   Though I have no illusion that the actions of a single individual will influence your apartheid policies, I am confident that if millions of citizens choose like myself to express their repugnance economically, then Israel will eventually have to accept moral responsibility for the suffering it has inflicted on the Palestinian people.<br />
   Perhaps that day is closer than many think. It was not so long ago that Canadians avoided criticizing Israel for fear they would be branded as anti-Semite. Today, we openly compare the slaughter in Gaza to the Nazi extermination campaign in Warsaw.<br />
   Towards peace with justice,”</p>
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		<title>By: giorgio</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35480</link>
		<dc:creator>giorgio</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 00:58:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>mebosa ritchie,

You quite a treat around here...keep posting and keep us amused....
We need a clown around with sludge (Made in Israel) between the ears...  

Happy New Year (the Christian one of course) and may it be FREE from the likes of  Bernie Madoffs....</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mebosa ritchie,</p>
<p>You quite a treat around here&#8230;keep posting and keep us amused&#8230;.<br />
We need a clown around with sludge (Made in Israel) between the ears&#8230;  </p>
<p>Happy New Year (the Christian one of course) and may it be FREE from the likes of  Bernie Madoffs&#8230;.</p>
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		<title>By: mebosa ritchie</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35465</link>
		<dc:creator>mebosa ritchie</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:21:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>you&#039;re right.   i&#039;ve seen what happens to bullies and child killers
god bless america

BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 -- Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was hanged in the predawn hours of Saturday for crimes against humanity in the mass murder of Shiite men and boys in the 1980s, sent to the gallows by a government backed by the United States and led by Shiite Muslims who had been oppressed during his rule, Iraqi and American officials said.

In the early morning, Hussein, 69, was escorted from his U.S. military prison cell at Camp Cropper, near the Baghdad airport, and handed over to Iraqi officials. He was executed on the day Sunni Muslims, of which he was one, were to begin celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>you&#8217;re right.   i&#8217;ve seen what happens to bullies and child killers<br />
god bless america</p>
<p>BAGHDAD, Dec. 30 &#8212; Former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein was hanged in the predawn hours of Saturday for crimes against humanity in the mass murder of Shiite men and boys in the 1980s, sent to the gallows by a government backed by the United States and led by Shiite Muslims who had been oppressed during his rule, Iraqi and American officials said.</p>
<p>In the early morning, Hussein, 69, was escorted from his U.S. military prison cell at Camp Cropper, near the Baghdad airport, and handed over to Iraqi officials. He was executed on the day Sunni Muslims, of which he was one, were to begin celebrating the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha.</p>
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		<title>By: Suthiano</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35460</link>
		<dc:creator>Suthiano</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 22:08:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks mebosa.

We do know a lot here... maybe you should talk to your zionist friends and let them know we aren&#039;t stooopid terrorists. it is good lesson to learn that we are smart people, not racists.

We open our arms to anyone who has had enough of war... and we say help us fight for justice. Open your mind to peace. Come out of your isolation/fortress mentality. Recognize that state and individual are good comparisons, and that anyone doing what Israel has been doing since inception would be arrested... later he would feel very guilty or else be sent to death (if in U.S.) or many many years in jail. You know what happens in jail to bullies and child killers? not good things.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks mebosa.</p>
<p>We do know a lot here&#8230; maybe you should talk to your zionist friends and let them know we aren&#8217;t stooopid terrorists. it is good lesson to learn that we are smart people, not racists.</p>
<p>We open our arms to anyone who has had enough of war&#8230; and we say help us fight for justice. Open your mind to peace. Come out of your isolation/fortress mentality. Recognize that state and individual are good comparisons, and that anyone doing what Israel has been doing since inception would be arrested&#8230; later he would feel very guilty or else be sent to death (if in U.S.) or many many years in jail. You know what happens in jail to bullies and child killers? not good things.</p>
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		<title>By: Suthiano</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35453</link>
		<dc:creator>Suthiano</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>mebozo richie rich,

Israel is in no way a &quot;great nation&quot;. It is nation that spends time tearing out olive trees and building walls. It is nation built on unsustainable structures and systems. Water is already running out... Dead Sea &quot;refill&quot; plan is foolish. Desalianation is costly to people and environment. Israel is forced to launch wars of agression to try to get better access to water:

it was in 1949 that then President Ben-Gurion dreamed up his &quot;fantastic plan&quot; of a &quot;Greater Israel&quot;, which was to include the Egyptian Sinai, all of Jordan west of Jordan river, all Lebanese territory south of Litani River, partially to address these issues of water supply. This plan began being implemented in 1953 when Ben-Gurion, with the help of Moshe Dayan orders a policy of forcible removal of Arab inhabitants from the DMZ, installing Israeli troops disguised as settlers. Also begins construction project to divert the flow of the Jordan River to the Negev region of Israel. Syria, which has already offered to give up 70% of its interest in the DMZ to resolve the issue, protests to the UN. The U.S. then brokers an arrangement wherein Israel abandons its water diversion project in exchange for virtually total control over the DMZ.

By 1959 Israel was stealing water from Lake Kinneret (Syria). By 1963 Israel has undertaken a “&quot;policy of escalation” with Syria. According to Moshe Dayan &quot;80 percent&quot; of all the clashes between Israel and Syria during this period are &quot;deliberately provoked&quot; by Isreal.

This all matches official Zionist doctrine: As Israeli General Ezer Weizman (later president), stated in 1972: “political settlement without expansion would mean that Israel could not ‘exist according to the scale, spirit, and quality she now embodies’”.

Your country must fight racist, expansionist wars to have a functioning economy. That is first sign of stupidity/pathology/irresponsibility, not greatness.

Such is problem with elitism. no one on earth is good enough to give elitists elite level of respect the feel they deserve. As result elitists project own crimes onto other peoples... common psychological coping method.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>mebozo richie rich,</p>
<p>Israel is in no way a &#8220;great nation&#8221;. It is nation that spends time tearing out olive trees and building walls. It is nation built on unsustainable structures and systems. Water is already running out&#8230; Dead Sea &#8220;refill&#8221; plan is foolish. Desalianation is costly to people and environment. Israel is forced to launch wars of agression to try to get better access to water:</p>
<p>it was in 1949 that then President Ben-Gurion dreamed up his &#8220;fantastic plan&#8221; of a &#8220;Greater Israel&#8221;, which was to include the Egyptian Sinai, all of Jordan west of Jordan river, all Lebanese territory south of Litani River, partially to address these issues of water supply. This plan began being implemented in 1953 when Ben-Gurion, with the help of Moshe Dayan orders a policy of forcible removal of Arab inhabitants from the DMZ, installing Israeli troops disguised as settlers. Also begins construction project to divert the flow of the Jordan River to the Negev region of Israel. Syria, which has already offered to give up 70% of its interest in the DMZ to resolve the issue, protests to the UN. The U.S. then brokers an arrangement wherein Israel abandons its water diversion project in exchange for virtually total control over the DMZ.</p>
<p>By 1959 Israel was stealing water from Lake Kinneret (Syria). By 1963 Israel has undertaken a “&#8221;policy of escalation” with Syria. According to Moshe Dayan &#8220;80 percent&#8221; of all the clashes between Israel and Syria during this period are &#8220;deliberately provoked&#8221; by Isreal.</p>
<p>This all matches official Zionist doctrine: As Israeli General Ezer Weizman (later president), stated in 1972: “political settlement without expansion would mean that Israel could not ‘exist according to the scale, spirit, and quality she now embodies’”.</p>
<p>Your country must fight racist, expansionist wars to have a functioning economy. That is first sign of stupidity/pathology/irresponsibility, not greatness.</p>
<p>Such is problem with elitism. no one on earth is good enough to give elitists elite level of respect the feel they deserve. As result elitists project own crimes onto other peoples&#8230; common psychological coping method.</p>
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		<title>By: Tree</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35451</link>
		<dc:creator>Tree</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>...and this is why the world is so f*cked up.</description>
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		<title>By: Stephen Langford</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35449</link>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Langford</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 21:18:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Thanks for what you wrote... summed it up well. But still vote in elections, even if they are 90% sham. And be active. We are not all war criminals, but if we have a conscience, we feel complicit in the atrocities that our taxes make possible. Here in Australia, Jewish people are getting together and voicing their real disgust at what is going on. Peter Slezak is one of them, although better known is Antony Loewenstein, with his brilliant MY ISRAEL QUESTION. They have a letter printed today (6 Jan &#039;09) in some of the papers here, with over 100 signatures. For Jewish people the only answer to this disgrace, is solidarity and activism. Jewish people, like my father, have surely seen enough persecution in their history. Now is the time to get out of this    rotten situation and work with Palestinians for real peace, based on real justice, with recognition of the dispossession and violence visited on Palestinians, and the work that has been done by Zionists to undermine Palestinian society. Again, thanks for your article.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Thanks for what you wrote&#8230; summed it up well. But still vote in elections, even if they are 90% sham. And be active. We are not all war criminals, but if we have a conscience, we feel complicit in the atrocities that our taxes make possible. Here in Australia, Jewish people are getting together and voicing their real disgust at what is going on. Peter Slezak is one of them, although better known is Antony Loewenstein, with his brilliant MY ISRAEL QUESTION. They have a letter printed today (6 Jan &#8216;09) in some of the papers here, with over 100 signatures. For Jewish people the only answer to this disgrace, is solidarity and activism. Jewish people, like my father, have surely seen enough persecution in their history. Now is the time to get out of this    rotten situation and work with Palestinians for real peace, based on real justice, with recognition of the dispossession and violence visited on Palestinians, and the work that has been done by Zionists to undermine Palestinian society. Again, thanks for your article.</p>
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		<title>By: bozh</title>
		<link>http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/01/silence-is-complicity/#comment-35438</link>
		<dc:creator>bozh</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 20:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>some of the land in palestine had been bought by wealthy &#039;jews&#039; and the land given to &#039;jewish&#039; immigrants.
ottoman empire allowed immigration to its empire. some of the land that was bought was swampy; causing malaria of which lotsof  &#039;jews&#039; died. 
often more people left than came in. so, immigration up to 1922 was not of any significance to the establishment of israel.
what was of much importance was the fact that UK allowed illegal immigration into palestine. thnx</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>some of the land in palestine had been bought by wealthy &#8216;jews&#8217; and the land given to &#8216;jewish&#8217; immigrants.<br />
ottoman empire allowed immigration to its empire. some of the land that was bought was swampy; causing malaria of which lotsof  &#8216;jews&#8217; died.<br />
often more people left than came in. so, immigration up to 1922 was not of any significance to the establishment of israel.<br />
what was of much importance was the fact that UK allowed illegal immigration into palestine. thnx</p>
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